Decayed III: 2005

Side 2 of Volume 3 of my 'maginary mixtape meander through the first decade of the 21st century.

2005 is especially memorable because Mrs. K and I took a month off work to explore Japan... well, Honshu, the largest of it's four islands, at least. Travelling by train, we got a snapshot (literally and metaphorically) of Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima and a lot of places there and back.

There were lots of temples, enormous statues, a samba festival (!), the madness of the Shibuya Crossing at night, the beauty of Mount Fuji, the heartbreaking legacy of the atomic bomb, men pissing in the gutters on their way home from a sake bar, and the then-unusual sight of people wearing face masks when out and about. It was the experience of a lifetime.

Naturally, I came home with a clutch of Japanese CDs, none of which make an appearance here. Instead, I've mined the UK singles charts of 2005 for a dozen top tunes that floated my boat, and still do twenty years later.

Two Number Ones this time, one from the Queen Of Pop, Madonna, which shouldn't come as a great surprise as Hung Up was her 11th UK #1, albeit her first in five years. Gorillaz on the other hand scored their first - and to date only - UK #1 with Dare, bringing Shaun Ryder along for the ride.

Today's selection opens with Mylo, whose brilliant song Destroy Rock & Roll is an example of some of the challenges I encountered when creating these compilations. The track was originally doing the rounds in 2003, and popped up in my longlist for that year. However, Destroy Rock & Roll the album came out in 2004, whilst the title track entered the singles chart in early 2005. 

I made quite a few errors when I created the original 1980s Decade cassettes back in 1990, without the internet to hand and relying on record sleeve info to give me a rough idea of release dates. This time around, I checked all the chart positions, which involved some last minute swaps in the final year-by-year sequencing. I'm clearly quite adept at making an 'easy' job more complicated!

Destroy Rock & Roll is built on a extensively edited sample of the Church Universal and Triumphant's Invocation For Judgement Against And Destruction Of Rock Music. A long list of artists and bands are read out as deserving "the judgement of the sacred fire in this hour before the throne of almighty God" including Michael Jackson (twice), Bruce Springsteen, Duran Duran, Paul McCartney, Patti Smith, Prince, The Rolling Stones, Tina Turner and Madonna.

Unfortunately, thanks to a particularly incompetent preacher who was clearly unfamiliar with most of the names on the list, hapless innocents David Booey, Cyndi Looper and Jack Cougar Mellencamp suffered eternal damnation whilst their more famous nearly namesakes got away scot free.

Daft Punk weren't around then, but if they were, they'd no doubt be on the list for the perverted act of going around pretending to be robots. Thankfully, in 2005 James Murphy was hosting the most improbably gig ever, by cramming them into his humble abode. After a guest appearance here in 2002, at the controls for a single by Radio 4, in 2005 he makes a return with his own band, LCD Soundsystem. Not the last we'll be seeing of them in this series, either.

Another act who have only previously appeared on production duty is Coldcut, way back in 1990 on Telephone Thing by The Fall. in 2006, they released the brilliant album Sound Mirrors, preceded by a couple of singles, including Everything Is Under Control, featuring Jon Spencer (sans Blues Explosion) and rapper Mike Ladd.

Ben Watt also made a comeback of sorts, though as a solo artist rather than with then-partner Tracey Thorn (they married in 2009) as Everything But The Girl. Instead, the unexpectedly titled Pop A Cap In Yo' Ass has a star turn by Estelle, a spoken word tale laid over a bouncing dancefloor beat and surely a contender for the Some Songs Make Great Short Stories series at The Vinyl Villain.

Keeping the alternative/rock scene alive in 2005 were The Mooney Suzuki, The Bees and The Coral, whilst Cagedbaby and Hot Chip remixing Architecture In Helsinki were pushing my electronica buttons, even if the record buying public were less convinced.

Client was a super duo of sorts, teaming Sarah Blackwood (Dubstar) with Kate Holmes (Frazier Chorus, Technique), and signed to the Toast Hawaii label owned by Andrew Fletcher (Depeche Mode). Andy co-produced the single Pornography, Client's only Top 30 single, undoubtedly helped by a guest vocal from Carl Barât (The Libertines).

Things were about to change for the UK charts though, as 2006 would see a significant shift in the scope of eligibility, reflecting the change in formats and listening habits in the digital age. But was the music any good in 2006?

Please join me next weekend to find out!

1) Destroy Rock & Roll (Album Version): Mylo

2) Daft Punk Is Playing At My House (Album Version): LCD Soundsystem

3) Everything Is Under Control (Album Version): Coldcut ft. Jon Spencer & Mike Ladd

4) Alive & Amplified: The Mooney Suzuki

5) Chicken Payback (Album Version): The Bees

6) In The Morning (Album Version): The Coral

7) Hung Up (Radio Version): Madonna

8) Golden Triangle (Radio Mix): Cagedbaby

9) Pop A Cap In Yo' Ass (Edit): Ben Watt ft. Estelle

10) Do The Whirlwind (Hot Chip Remix): Architecture In Helsinki

11) Pornography (Extended Mix): Client ft. Carl Barât

12) Dare (Album Version): Gorillaz ft. Shaun Ryder

16th January 2005: City (#22): 11

23rd January 2005: Alive & Amplified (#38): 4

30th January 2005: Destroy Rock & Roll (#15): 1

6th February 2005: Outspoken Part 1 EP (#74): 9

6th March 2005: LCD Soundsystem (#29): 2

10th April 2005: Free The Bees (#28): 5

15th May 2005: The Invisible Invasion (#6): 6

4th September 2005: Demon Days (#1): 12

23rd October 2005: Cagedbaby Will See You Now (# n/a): 8

13th November 2005: Confessions On A Dance Floor (#1): 7

20th November 2005: Sound Mirrors (#93): 3

20th November 2005: We Died, They Remixed (#100): 10

Side Two (46:58) (GD) (M)

Like this? Then why not dip back another couple of decades with my selections from 1985 and 1995?

Upon A Mouse #6: Shadows Fall As We Line Up In The Dark Of The Matinée

Rounding out this week's trio of posts is a trio of self-titled debut albums, courtesy of The Coral, Elastica and Franz Ferdinand.

If you've not yet seen the previous five posts in the Upon A Mouse series, then suffice to say that the starting point/inspiration is The 20 Greatest Eponymous Albums Of All Time series which ran throughout October over at No Badger Required.

In the NBR countdown, The Coral didn't make the Top 20; Elastica and Franz Ferdinand did, though lower than my submitted placings as a member of the NBR Musical Jury.

So, in reverse order, I present my picks at #15, #6 and #7.

I seem to start most of these posts with a confession that I was a belated fan / late adopter of said band, and so it is with The Coral. 

The Coral formed in 1996, released their debut in 2002, and enjoyed several Top 40 singles in the UK, but this had largely passed me by. Instead, it was constantly finding 4th album The Invisible Invasion in record shop bargain bins that finally persuaded me to dive in.

The Invisible Invasion is a great album, but as I later discovered, the  debut wasn’t exactly slim pickings either.  The ballsy opening salvo of Spanish Main and I Remember When prove early on that The Coral weren’t just the sum of their influences. 

A brace of singles follow, in Shadows Fall and Dreaming Of You, and I can understand the early comparisons with The Animals/Eric Burdon, and Ian Broudie's production (excuse the pun) echoes the likes of Echo & The Bunnymen and The Icicle Works. That said, The Coral established a singular identity from right from this album. 

Other personal favourites on the album include Simon Diamond and Waiting For The Heartaches and, whilst The Invisible Invasion pips it for me album-wise, The Coral's first album stands up, two decades on.

 

 

The guitar... the bassline... the sound of drummer Justin Welch retching… the intro to Line Up is worth the price of admission alone. 

Forget the accusations of plagiarism (well, unless you're legal representatives for The Stranglers and Wire), part of the appeal as a mid-20s fan was the familiarity of some of the riffs, as well as the interesting new musical shapes that Elastica made with them.

Justine Frischmann, Donna Matthews and Annie Holland were wonderfully moody, but listening to Elastica by Elastica again is a reminder of not just their effortless cool, but how tight the band were. 

The four singles - Stutter, Line Up, Connection and Waking Up, the latter three all making the UK Top 20 - are brilliant, though not the album's only high points. Fifteen songs, just one going over the four minute mark, makes for an album that delivers variety and brevity that other acts would have been wise to follow.

I was a bored by the BritPop wave and many of the bands dragged along by it’s wake. Not Elastica, though. This album still has the power to kiss your lips whilst kicking you in the crotch.

 

 

Franz Ferdinand may draw deep from the well of post-punk and new wave, in terms of music, fashion and attitude, but frankly I didn’t care, Alex Kapranos and the gang were just what I needed in 2004, nearly a decade on from Elastica's debut.

It’s not one that I immediately think of as a perfect album, but I struggle to find fault with it either. Eleven great songs, wonderfully  performed, recorded and sequenced, and all stand up to repeated listening. 

Five singles may seem excessive, though it's hard to take issue with any of them. Take Me Out is their signature song, yet The Dark Of The Matinée with it's reference to Terry Wogan holds a special place in my heart. 

Auf Achse and Michael are further standouts for me though there's not a single below par song on the entire album. I'd forgotten/didn't know that it won the Mercury Music Prize in 2004 and it's not a great surprise as Franz Ferdinand - the album and the band - still has the power to excite and delight in 2025.

 

 

Today's unexpected cover star is the late John Belushi in a scene from The Blues Brothers. 'Nuff said.

Not Quite Noughtie Enough

I'm going to spend a large chunk of this post talking about someone else's blog and posts, but bear with me, there's a brand new Dubhed selection waiting for you at the end.

SWC at the ever-excellent No Badger Required has just concluded The Noughty Forty, a countdown of the greatest albums of the 2000s. All voted for by a Musical Jury, assembled from music blog creators and commenters from around the globe. 

 

NBR is an essential read anyway, not a single one feeling like it's been dashed off in the seconds that the idea itself is forming (yes, I'm looking at myself here). There's something even more impressive about series like this though, not least the sheer amount of effort that goes into planning, coordinating and curating the posts. And of course it sparks debate, anticipation and - let's be honest - a degree of feverish excitement as it reaches the Top Ten. 

I was privileged once again to be a Musical Jury Member for this series. SWC assigns aliases to all and I won't reveal mine here, though my arch or overly earnest comments may be a giveaway. 

I was pleased with the #1 choice, an artist and album I voted for though not my top scorer (which made the Top 10, but not the Top 5). Back in the summer, when this was just a plan taking shape in SWC's mind, he invited potential Musical Jury Members to submit their own nominations. 

Over 300 nominations were submitted. Of these, SWC presented us with a longlist of 74, from which to pick our Top 20. After totting up the scores, The Noughty Forty was finalised, with a few surprises and an eleventh hour vote tipping the balance between the top two.

SWC not only delivered The Noughty Forty, but preceded it with ten of Not Quite The Greatest Albums Of The 00s, also sharing the albums that made #41 & #42 in the final list. The series was then bookended with four Honorable Mentions, meaning that NBR readers were treated to 56 albums in total. 

 

I won't spoil things by posting the various lists here. If you haven't already followed the countdown on No Badger Required, go and check it out. You'll get to experience some great music, some controversial voting decisions and best of all, some top notch writing that brings the whole thing to life. 

No Badger Required is 3 years old this month and November will see another series, this time focusing on the number 3. Not in the way that you might expect, of course, but naturally it's going to be required reading for the next 30 days. SWC sets the bar high, so much so that I'm on the Dubhed ladder, head tilted as far back as it will go, straining to see the bar up above me. 

A constant inspiration and pace setter. Here's to you, SWC, and many more years of NBR to come.

So... what of today's selection?

Well, back at the beginning, when I was invited to submit nominations for the best albums of the 2000s, I applied some rules of my own. The most obvious one being that I had to own the albums, either physically or digitally, in their entirety. 

 

This - and the subsequent Noughty Forty - immediately highlighted how many contenders where I had a few songs, but not the entire album. Examples being The Streets, Radiohead, The Strokes and Grandaddy.

The other dawning realisation when following the final run down was how many albums from the 2000s I'd never even heard in full at all. Arctic Monkeys, Art Brut, The Horrors, Queens Of The Stone Age, The Long Blondes. I'm working on it now.

The other rule which I mostly followed was to exclude nominations for an album which I thought would receive multiple votes from the MJMs and would therefore be a shoo in for the longlist, if not the final 40. Therefore, I left out LCD Soundsystem, Radiohead, PJ Harvey, Franz Ferdinand and The White Stripes, to name a few. 

Not that my 20 nominations were by any means albums that I didn't consider to be anything other than essential listens. Or, so obscure that mine would be the only nomination. I mean, White Bread Black Beer by Scritti Politti had to be Top 30, if not higher, surely?

Of my 20 suggestions, 1 made the Not Quite The Greatest Albums Of The 00s list, 1 featured in the Honorable Mentions and 1 in The Noughty Forty...the Top 30 in fact, though it's no spoiler to say that it wasn't Scritti Poliiti.

So, 17 of my 20 nominations didn't get even a whiff of fame. One other artist did make the lower reaches of the countdown, though not with the album that I nominated!

However, all of this of course inspired today's selection. Without fear or favour, I've randomly selected 12 to create a snappy compilation to entertain for the next three quarters of an hour. 

 

Hopefully, a few of them will provoke an "Oh, yeah!" response. Others may be unfamiliar, but inspire a search to check out the rest of the album, which will undoubtedly be worth your time and effort.

It's an eclectic mix, as always. Back in 2000, it was hard to imagine that it would be 2024 before The The's next full band, non-soundtrack album would appear. Sadly, we're still waiting for Green Gartside's follow up to White Bread Black Beer, and each year hope diminishes. A couple of artists - Mark Linkous and Mark Lanegan - have passed on, leaving us with a rich musical legacy, these collaborative albums included.

Mark Lanegan's association with electronic artists Soulsavers was perhaps no surprise, given his voracious appetite for working with others across multiple musical genres. What was unexpected was N.A.S.A.'s 2009 album The Spirit Of Apollo, not least from it's dizzying spread of guest artists, but that their number included Tom Waits, here 'duetting' with rapper Kool Keith.

There are a few albums that didn't make my nominations list, partly because I thought that no-one else would submit them, partly because I will deliver on my promise to SWC a seeming eternity ago to submit a Nearly Perfect Albums guest post for his consideration. I need to get on with it!

In the meantime, enjoy this companion piece/celebration of an inspirational blog, as it's likely back to the usual nonsense on Saturday.

 

1) The Whisperers: The The (2000)

2) Paris Is Burning: Ladyhawke (2008)

3) Superstylin': Groove Armada (2001)

4) It's A Funny Thing: Edwyn Collins (2002)

5) Road To No Regret: Scritti Politti (2006)

6) Pain: Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse ft. Iggy Pop (2009)

7) Ghosts Of You And Me: Soulsavers ft. Mark Lanegan (2007)

8) The Moss: Daníel Ágúst (2005)

9) Something Inside Of Me: The Coral (2005)

10) Huddle Formation: The Go! Team (2004)

11) Young Bride: Midlake (2006)

12) Spacious Thoughts: N.A.S.A. ft. Tom Waits & Kool Keith (2009)

2000: Naked Self: 1

2001: Goodbye Country (Hello Nightclub): 3

2002: Doctor Syntax: 4

2004: Thunder, Lightning, Strike: 10

2005: Swallowed A Star: 8

2005: The Invisible Invasion: 9 

2006: The Trials Of Van Occupanther: 11

2006: White Bread Black Beer: 5 

2007: It's Not How Far You Fall, It's The Way You Land: 7

2008: Ladyhawke: 2

2009: Dark Night Of The Soul: 6

2009: The Spirit Of Apollo: 12

Not Quite Noughtie Enough (46:09) (KF) (Mega)

Thousand

No prizes for guessing what post number this is. 

Here's an eclectic 90 minutes of songs, remixes or acts featuring either '1000' or 'thousand' in the name. What was a little surprising was just how many examples are bouncing around in my collection. Even my shortlist contained roughly twice as many songs as made the final selection. 

Something for everyone, although not necessarily all together or in the right order. Ride, Hoodoo Gurus, Dengue Fever, The Sugarcubes, Gram Parsons, Gonzales, Stereolab, the selection also hops around the world a fair bit. Speaking of which...

 

Those of you who follow the excellent 27 Leggies and in particular Ernie's African Odyssey will have been hugely disappointed by the difficult decision to exclude the mighty King Ayisoba from this week's stop off in Ghana, such was the embarrassment of musical riches emanating from the country. Rest assured, his majesty makes an appearance here, with one of the songs that Ernie originally posted and part of my introduction to the Ghanaian great.

The selection closes with a two-hander from XTC and The Coral and I don't think I could have picked two better songs to wrap up. 

Viel spaß mit meiner tausendsten beitragsauswahl, meine Freunde!

1) 1000 Miles: Ride (1994)

2) Rilly Groovy (S1000 Mix By Spencer Williams & Mike Koglin): Beautiful People ft. Jimi Hendrix (1992)

3) Furious Angels (Rollo's Thousand Volts Mix): Rob Dougan (1998)

4) 1000 Miles Away: Hoodoo Gurus ft. Vicki Peterson (1991)

5) One Thousand Miles An Hour: Stereolab (1995)

6) 1000 Faces: Gonzales (2002)

7) Through It Poured The Next Day, I Never Noticed The Rain (Single Version): One Thousand Violins (1986)

8) One Thousand Tears Of A Tarantula (Album Version): Dengue Fever (2005)

9) One Thousand Years: TUU (1993)

10) Swords Of A Thousand Men: Tenpole Tudor (1981)

11) 1000 Dollar Car: The Bottle Rockets (1994)

12) Son Of A Thousand Fathers: Prince Fatty & Mutant Hi-Fi (2011)

13) 1000 Miles: Dirty Three (1996)

14) Blue-Eyed Pop (S1000 Mix By Spencer Williams & Mike Koglin): The Sugarcubes (1992)

15) 1000 Can Die: King Ayisoba ft. M3nsa & Lee 'Scratch' Perry (2017)

16) $1000 Wedding: Gram Parsons ft. Emmylou Harris (1974)

17) A Girl Like You (1000 Times) (Remix By Howard Gray): The Wolfgang Press ft. Claudia Fontaine (1992)

18) 1000 Umbrellas: XTC (1986)

19) 1000 Years: The Coral (2010)

 

1974: $1000 Wedding: 16

1981: Eddie, Old Bob, Dick And Gary: 10

1986: Please Don't Sandblast My House EP: 7 

1986: Skylarking (2016 Steven Wilson Mix): 18

1991: Kinky: 4 

1992: A Girl Like You EP: 17

1992: It's-It: 14

1992: Rilly Groovy EP: 2 

1993: One Thousand Years: 9

1994: Carnival Of Light: 1 

1994: The Brooklyn Side: 11

1995: The In Sound EP: 5 

1996: Horse Stories: 13

1998: Furious Angels EP: 3

2002: Presidential Suite: 6

2005: Escape From Dragon House: 8

2010: Butterfly House: 19

2011: Return Of Gringo!: 12

2017: 1000 Can Die: 15

Thousand (1:29:08) (KF) (Mega)

And if that's not enough for you, there are thousands of others that could have made the cut. 

Contributing today's cover photo, I bought the 12" of I Feel It/Thousand by Moby in the 1990s. I remember reading in Mixmag or DJ magazine at the time that the song achieved a Guinness World Record for having the fastest BPM tempo of any released single, peaking at approximately 1,015 beats per minute. 

 

None of which means the song is any good, of course. Rather than subject you to the full version, here's two minutes of Moby "performing" Thousand at the Electric Daisy Carneval in (I think) 2015. Health warning: strobe lights, plus a bald, pasty-skinned man topless and puffing his chest out to the largely indifferent masses. The fireworks are lovely, though.

 

Someone else who's still rocking the hairspray and lippy like it's 1985 is Robert Smith of The Cure. Here's A Thousand Hours (and bonus At Night) performed last October in Los Angeles. The venue is the Smoothie King Center, presumably named after a US company/sponsor but was there ever a more appropriately named venue for ol' Bob?

Back to 1994 and The Fatima Mansions live on stage 1000%, again cutting away to some fairly blank faces. Phillistines! I saw Cathal Coughlan and crew at The Fleece in Bristol around the same time and it was one of the most blistering, incendiary gigs I've been to. A greatly missed creative genius. 

You get some strange stuff on You Tube, don't you? I love The Beloved and I really like the song 1000 Years From Today. One fan has taken this one step further and created their own video. Not the mental image I had when listening to the song previously.

 

I have one song by Lia Ices aka Leah Kessel, courtesy of a Mojo magazine cover mount CD. A bit of an insult really, given that she's released four albums since 2008. Luckily for Lia, the one song is called Thousand Eyes so it gets a mention here. Not a fan-made video, although it's cut-and-paste job shamelessly stealing from Bollywood.

And for those of you who on seeing the post title and theme have been shouting "Where's Slough's finest, Thousand Yard Stare, for feck's sake?!" at the screen ever since, I think it's about time you got your comeuppance. 

 

No, I mean the song's called Comeuppance... 

 

Wait, come back....

 

...oh, now I've gone and done it.

Oh iPod I Love You

A slightly different blast from the past today as I take another dip into the dusty archives of my previous blog. This selection was posted on 7th April 2007 as individual MP3s. Originally an iPod Top 20 most played selection, I've re-sequenced and re-created the playlist as two 'sides' which flow more naturally, to these ears at least. As you'll see, I was deep into an obsession with mash-ups at the time, which accounted for half of the Top 20.

Over to my former 30-something self...

I finally got around to upgrading from my much loved Panasonic portable cassette player to an iPod Nano last month. Even though I'm making very slow progress with uploading stuff from my record collection (about 500 songs so far, barely half the 4GB space), I've been giving my iPod a good run for it's money. It's been great to hear songs that I haven't listened to in a while, as well as discovering a whole load of stuff on the internet. The shuffle option has proved to be highly addictive when it comes to unusual playlists. I quit smoking (again) on Tuesday and (honest, guv) the moment I lit up my last fag, Chumbawamba's Give The Anarchist A Cigarette kicked into my headphones. Thankfully, so far my iPod's skipped John Lennon's Cold Turkey, which is also lurking in there somewhere...

To pick up the story, 15 years on, apart from the cliché of a celebratory cigar when Lady K was born, I've not smoked since and I have never been tempted to try vaping.

 

I've been through 5 iPod Nanos since that initial purchase (the green one in the picture, if you're wondering); I worked them very hard. The subsequent iPods were all cheap secondhand purchases from eBay and for varying reasons all eventually gave up. I think my iPods were less forgiving than SWC's over at No Badger Required... 

You'll note that only 4 Nanos are pictured. The fifth - also pink and always the least wanted on eBay, it seems - fell from my pocket as I was racing to platform 12 at Leeds Railway Station to catch a train home. I saw it slide effortlessly across the platform before gliding briefly above the tracks then dropping down into the path of an incoming train. I'd like to say that either Dylan's Blood On The Tracks or Mylo's Destroy Rock & Roll was playing in that fateful moment but, to be honest, I don't remember and I was probably swearing too loudly to notice as I continued running for my train, my suddenly orphaned headphone cable trailing behind me... 

 

I retired my last Nano a couple of years ago and sold the 4 defunct iPods as parts on eBay. These days, my headphone and in-car music listening is all on my phone, with a never-ending variation of playlists.

 

As for mash-ups, I still love them, but my frankly ridiculous habit of downloading and collecting hundreds of them had significantly dropped by the end of the 2000s. The artists that I followed now seem to have mostly retired from mash-ups and are focused on other music-related pursuits.

 

IDC aka David McCarthy has released two albums, Overthrow The Boss Class (2008) and The Sun is Always Shining Above The Clouds (2011) and, according to his website, album #3 is currently in production.

 

McSleazy seems to have been retired around 2010-2011 and Grant J. Robson has since worked as a soundtrack composer and solo artist. His 4th album, Lit By The Dark, was released in 2021 and features The Vaselines' Eugene Kelly on The Burden, which is rather wonderful.

Team9 also ceased some years ago by all accounts and I've struggled to find any current website for Neil Mason. Info suggests that Neil is still based in Perth and working as a soundtrack composer and music producer.

Go Home Productions last released a couple of mash-ups in 2020, but Mark Vidler has more recently been involved with Graham Daniels as Addictive TV, including the incredible Orchestra Of Samples project. Mark was recently pictured with Devo and John Lydon at the Cruel World Fest in Pasadena, California.

 

Loo & Placido aka Laurent Lupidi & Jeremy Johnson are still going strong, celebrating over 20 years of mash-ups, more recent beneficiaries being XXXTentacion, Billie Eilish, Chvrches and Post Malone. 

Suffice to say, my digital music collection has grown exponentially since 2007 and my Top 20 most played list has significantly changed, skewed in part by school runs and Lady K's brief obsessions with Queen and, way out in front, Feel It Still by Portugal. The Man which was curtailed only by the lockdown in 2020. Of today's selection, only Lou Reed comes anywhere close, coming in at #84...

Anyway, enough of my yakking, without further ado here's today's selection for your listening pleasure.

Side One

1) Pain Killer (Album Version): Turin Brakes (2003)

2) Toop Toop Groove (Cassius vs. Madonna): Loo & Placido (2006)

3) In The Morning (Album Version By Geoff Barrow & Adrian Utley): The Coral (2005)

4) 7 Nation Rocker (Alter Ego vs. The White Stripes): IDC (2004)

5) Don't Call Me Song 2 (Madison Avenue vs. Blur): McSleazy (2000)

6) Satellite Of Love (Album Version By David Bowie & Mick Ronson): Lou Reed (1972)

7) Get I.D. (Kelis vs. Kasabian): McSleazy (2004)

8) Sheltered Life (Radio Edit): Erlend Øye (2003)

9) Since You Love Me (Kelly Clarkson vs. David Guetta vs. The Egg): Loo & Placido (2006)

10) Uptight Maggie (Re-Vision) (Stevie Wonder vs. Rod Stewart): Go Home Productions (2004) 

 

Side Two

1) Oblivious (Remix By Felix Chamberlain & Ted Templeman) (7" Version): Aztec Camera (1983)

2) Oops I'm Loaded (Original Version) (Tweet vs. Primal Scream): Team9 (2006) 

3) The Doorbell Encore (Jay-Z vs. The White Stripes): Team9 (2005)

4) Lost In Music (Album Version) (Cover of Sister Sledge): The Fall (1993)

5) Naive Hustler (Mirwais vs. Simian Mobile Disco): IDC (2006)

6) I'm Losing More Than I'll Ever Have (Cover of Primal Scream): Idha (1994)

7) Give The Anarchist A Cigarette (Edit): Chumbawamba (1994)

8) Insatiable Love (Darilyn Mansun) (Darren Hayes vs. Marilyn Manson): McSleazy (2002)

9) Sometimes Always (Album Version): The Jesus & Mary Chain ft. Hope Sandoval (1994)

10) Tulsa Telephone Book (Live @ Roskilde Festival, Denmark) (Cover of Tom T. Hall): Calexico (2000) 

 

Side One (35:30)

Side Two (37:35)